[REGRESSION] Temporary Directory Ignored

[Enrico Forestieri]

On Sun, Feb 16, 2020 at 07:01:04AM -0500, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote:
> On 2/16/20 5:59 AM, Enrico Forestieri wrote:
> > On Sun, Feb 16, 2020 at 01:47:43AM +0100, Stephan Witt wrote:
> >> Am 16.02.2020 um 01:25 schrieb Enrico Forestieri <forenr at lyx.org>:
> >>
> >>> I tried to reproduce your configuration on linux by creating a /tmpriv
> >>> symlink pointing to /private/tmp and trying to set the temporary dir
> >>> to /tmpriv. I did non succeed because it seems that the temporary
> >>> directory cannot be changed and is always /tmp, whatever you set
> >>> in Preferences->Paths->Temporary directory !
> >> Yes, probably it’s platform specific if it’s /tmp or
> >> /private/var/folders/1x/zm63s22x7s591xrlgm4rl9v40000gn
> > No, this is a bug in LyX. If I write "/foobar"
> > in Preferences->Paths->Temporary directory, the temporary dir stil is "/tmp",
> > so I cannot verify your problem and test your patch.
> 
> I do not see this on stable, but I do see the problem in master. If this
> does not ring a bell for someone, we should file a bug report. No time
> now but I can do it later.

Reported at https://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/11744

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Enrico